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The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-02-22

point of high moral integrity. His training
was of the OldfGshiOned sort-a little severe,
doubtless, but productive of good results.
At the presidents receptions given by
Washington i'll Philadelphia when he was
president, which gentlemen only attended, he
wore a suit of black velvet, with black silk
stockings silver knee and shoe. buckles and
had his hair highly powdered and tied in
queue behind He wore yellow gloves and
held cooked hat, with a cockade AMI black
feather on it, in his hanl. He wore his dress
sword. an elegant weapon, encased in a scab-
bard of white polished leather Only the
point of the scabhard, however. appeared be-
low the coat. which was worn over it.
a gentleman who often attended these re
ceptions sail that Washington always stood
in front of the fireplace. with his face toward
the door of entrance. The visitor was CON
Quoted to him, and he required the name TO
he so distinctly spoken that he could hear it.
Having once heard name, he never forgot
either il or the man TO whom il belonged. He
Acknowledged all introductiOns with a bow,
keeping his hands behind him, as a hint that
hand shaking was not to be expected. We
are surely growing more democratic. The
arms of our presidents are now wrung nearly
off their bodies 10y thousands of callers every
time they receive the public. Any president
who undertook to keep his hands behind his
back at one of his own receptions would hear
more plain comments on his excluSiveneSs
than he could comfortably endure. But then
Washington didn't seem 10 think much about
a second term, and bluntly refused third
His visitors formed a circle round the room,
and when the door was closed the president
began to move around IL, calling each visitor
by name. When he had gone clear around
he resumed his first position by the fireplace,
when the visitors approached him in success
sion, bowed and retired. A visitor describes
il fearful ordeal, and such il must have
been, even TO those accustomed to much dig
nifty and formal ceremony. These receptions
were held on Tuesday afternoon They closed
promptly at O'Clock
Washingtons celebrated English coach was
dignifed a. he 1t was imported from
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-02-22

In Little Brington, NOrthamptonshire,
England, not far from Althorp park, the
home of the Spencers, is the old house where
John Washington born. He emigrate<l
to Virginia in 1853, and was the ancestor of
George Washington.
This house is built of yellow brown sand
stone 1t has "a matched roof and stone null
loned windows; that is, the lights of the win
dows are divided by slender stone bars.
called in architecture mullions. Above tue
door this inscription is carved i'll the stone:
The Lord giveth the Lord taketh away.
Blessed he the name of the Lord.
Constructa. I606.
This house is now a laborer's cottage, with
"fiowers peeping from the stone mulioned
windows, and sparrows building and chatter
ing III the matched caves, and children filling
their pitchers at the village pump under the
great yow tree across the road"
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-02-22

Where may the wearied eye reppse
When gazing on the great.
Where neither guilty glory slOWs,
Nor despicable STATE.
Yes. One-the first, the last, the best,
The Cinciunatus Of the west
Whom Envy dared not hate
Bequeathed the name Of Washington,
To make men blush there was but one.
-Byro
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-02-22

say that he was as invincible i'll this capacity
a. in the field: that when he tackled a man
that man was aS good As lost. He hal 10 buy
the book I'm this way the young Eirginian
helped 10 educate the country he saved He
Disseminated literature in regions presumably
barren of that luxury. IL was no use for a
man To say that he didn't need the book.
couldn't afford il, and 80 on. George stuck to
him till he yielded IL was always a case of
pushing on 10 victory for George What was
worth doing AZ all was worth doing well. He
always brought down his man. The book
was no small parcel TO tote" either. He
didn't mind that. however, but carried it as
proudly he afterward wore his sword. Let
everybody remember that George Washing
ton was ouc,a book agent. Ii may make
them decently courteous TO other book agents,
any one of whom may be future president
Shut not the door in the book agents face,
lest You might some time want to ask him for
an appointment u 9th z. Angels and presi-
dents are daily entertained unawares.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-02-22

This Is country, says Rose Kingsley, Of
-'big parks, Iii, woods, biz fields, big fences,
big tre,s" IL j. u far Land, a rolling country
az green hills Vet really without any eleva-
ton high eu.;I-h 10 be called a hill. In
sprinStine its woo,lS arr full OF primroses
English rrimro,,Sl and it, meadows of cow
slips tEu.- i,u coHSliisl. and the nightingales
sing - the, 'spinney>." that i, in the little
gIovts-t.Ilc,, with uudrrhrush for the covert
Of the nis htiaSa!s is low.
A traveller visiting in the neighborhood Of
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-02-22

wAsHINGTONs "WHTE CHARIOT"
made into walking sticks and other memen-
toes. The French one was destroyed in New
Orleans. Both oI these haI ornamental pan
els, but this one had plain panels Ii Is owned
by Capt. Ben Richardson, of Harlem.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-02-22

The house was destroyed before the reyo-
luton. George W. 7. Gusts placed upon its
site a slab of freestOne, hearing this inscrip-
ton: Here, the 18th of February. l1:s2,
George Washington was born Ii was laid
in June, lSlJ, and was the first, even a. it il
the most touching Of all his monuments.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-02-22

There l. a story to the effect that George
Washington was once book agent. We have
taken great pains to hunt up the descendants
of his book purchasers. and find out Just how
he went about this delicate work They all
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-02-22
THE INSIDE ENEMIES
WHO FOUGHT WASHINGTON WHILE
HE FOUGHT THE BRITISH.

Foes within the Patriotic FoId-The
Jealous Murmurings, the RascaIity and
Malice which Secretly Attacked the
Great Colonial Leader.
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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-10-15
In Fact, the President Has Already Offered
Him the Place, and He Is Now Arranging
His Affairs with View to Accepting.
Points from Annual Report of the Com
missioner of the General Land Office.
A Proposed Law Looking to Relief from Deadly
Disasters on Railways-More About the
Reported Chinese Concessions.
THE SUPREME COURT VACANCY.
The President Said to Have rendered the
Appointment Secretary Lamar.

The President Said to Have rendered the
Appointment to Secretary Lamar.
NEW YORK, Oct IA Tho Times says: "Ac-
cordng to the most excellent authority
speculation over the successorship to the seat
on the bench of the United States Supreme
Court, made vacant bv the death of Justice
Woods, of Louisiana, may as we'll end. for L. @.
c. Lamar, Secretary Of the Interior, has been
selected for the place Ever since Louisiana
camc into the Union it has been represented in
this court the law of that State is, in some
respects, peculiar. It is the old civil and canon
law. Trials are held before notsries aud the
system and customs Of legal procedure, while
conforming in general features to national con-
origin and retain many of the old peculiarities.
AS Louisiana lawyers the only persons
who are supposed to understand the
laws of that State. it has been the Gus
tom to keep of them always the
highest bspoh. That explains the urgency and
multiplicity of candidates from that quarter. 1t
is felt that the President cannot diareeard the
observed. According to the authority upon
which the announcement of Secretary Lamars
selection 10 based, the President il not impressed
with the necessity of looking to Louisiana for
new justice. He fsss that the State will be
quite we'll protected by resident of ad-
will be more widely acceptable than that of any
when he might choose from Louisiana
The matter il said to have gone SO far that the
appointment has been rendered to Mr.. Lamar.
who has consented to accept it He is already
arranging his affairs with view to the promised
change in his official position. The appointment
is likely to bs formally announced by q nomina-
ton quite early in tho session of the Senate"
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THE GERaAN GROWN PRINCE.
New York Physician Reports that Frederick
Williams Throat Trouble Is Very Serious.

A New York Physician Reports that Frederick
Willis ANS Throat Trouble Is Very Serious.
New YORK. Oct. 14-Dr. Wilfrsd Nelson, of
this city, who has just returned from Germany,
says that when he was III Baden Baden, a few
days ago, he was assured by physicians and
other gentlemen who had trustworthy sources
OF information that the condition of the
Crown Prince Frederick William is un-
questionably precarious. It is admitted
now that he is suffering from
of the throat. known as the tobacco smokers
csncer. The is very similar to that of Gen.
eral Grant. The Prince was for many years an
inveterate smoker. In spite of all official opin-
ions to the contrary. German physicians con-
slider the Prince already a doomed The
only the tissues primarily affected, but the parts
themselves. So severe has the treatment bsen
that some portion of the bone tissue is now via
FI5!e. Conservative Germans, DR.. Nelson ad-
ded. view the probability Of the Crown Princes
early demise with much alarm. The Emperor
already past ninety-one, has had several pseudo
apoplectic seizures, though this has been indus
triously denied. His death is liable to
occur at any moment. With the
Grown Prince the Emperor's successor 1t is
believed that peaceful policy would be main
tanned and that Bismarck's influence would bs
less prsdominant. But If he is at deaths door,
the impartial power will soon fall TO Prince
William, the Crown Princes eldest son. He is
youug man of twenty-elsht years and lie said
be every inch q soldier. People who know
him say he 10 bold, i'm oetuous and fiery, and is
apprehe nsion is therefore felt in regard to Ger
mapy'S prOxlmata future,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-10-15
UNKNOWN MAN MURDERED.
The Terrible Ending of an Orgie in n Hay
Field in the Vicinity of Bloomington. iii.
,cial to the Indianapolis Journal.

Special to the Indanapolis journal
BLOOMINGTON, H., Oct. Thames Geary. a
tramp hailing from Buffalo, N. Y who had ar
Indianapolis, at P. NJ. yesterday, about mid
night last night reported to the police that
murder had been committed at the "Y," the
junction of the Illinois Central. the Lake Erie
& Western and the Indiana, Bloomington s.
Western two miles southeast of town. He
child enter a field about half past and go to
hay-rick About 9 o'clock, while he was asleep,
be awakened by a pistol shot ard heard a
woman scream; then he heard several people
leave the field, saving. .'You hadn't ought TO
shoot him." An hour later, as Geary was cross
ing the field going to pump be says, he
stumbled over the corpse of man. and on feel
ing his face got blood on his hand. The sheriff
took posse in carriages and went out to the
to the scene After hours search
the body was found - that OF
good looking blonde man of twenty six
thirty, with . bullet hole IN the back of his
head. He well drsssed. and on his bosom
a most artistic tattooed device. a copy of
celebrated painting OF the crucifxion. There
WAS absolutely nothing about him to Identify
him beyond this. To-day. Curtis Robinson,
young man, farm hand living near the city,
was arrested, and confessed the killing ne-
named Smith, his white wife, her sister
Lizzie Williams, prostitute and little son Of
OF them also brought in witnesses
The crowd had been having bsstial orgie in the
him with clubs; and that the shooting done
in self defense
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RIOTOUs wORKINGMEN.

A London Mob Becomes Too Noisy and Is
Promptly Dispersed by the Police.
LONDON, Oct 1.-THE unemployed persons
who frequent Trafalgar square formed in a
body to-day and marched to the Mansion House,
where they demanded interview with the
Lord Mayor. The Lord Mayor declined to hold
any conversation with the mob or its represent
atives. The crowd insisted upon an interview,
but were again refused. They then denounced
the Lord Mayor, after which they started back
TO Trafalgar square. The stopped at the Office
of the Standard and hooted and jeered.
The police attempted to the
crowd, but were met with resistance. They then
charged the mob and seized black banner and
a number of red flags. The mob then scattered
but shortly aftsrward rallied. the leaders of
the crowd shouted, Men assert your rights"
and the mob rushed upon the police and
ceeded in forcing them back from their position
and in recapturing the black banner. The po-
the mob. who became demoralzed and in
every direction. To-day's movement was
ultrasentimental affair and achieved a quasi
success, due entirely to the leniency of the
police The disposition on the part of the latter
to permit the crowd to make tho most of their
demonstration without overstepping the divid-
ing line between noise and violence was how
ever, mistaken by the mob for fear. and the
police, finally becoming impatient, dispersed
the gathering in front Of the Standard Office in
less than four minutes. The fact that the in
comparatively trifine is evidence that the re-
sistance of the mob was wea x. and that they
were not nearly defiant TO tine authority of
the police as they pretended to be.
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NOT so FUNNY, AFTER ALL.
Miss Foster Accepts Bantering Challenge Of
Marriage, and Finds Herself Fast Bound.
specia, to the indianapolis Journal

Special to the indianapolis Journal
EAU CLAIRE, Wis. Oct. IA sensational
occurrence at Farchild. this county, Tues
day has just leaked out here. Several young
people, with whom Edward Foss, aged
forty, station agent of the Omaha railway. were
ont walking. They met Miss Clara E. Foster,
girl of nineteen. who was driving with r. c.
Hine, q gentleman who is a justice of the peace.
The conversation turned on marriage, and one
of the party laughingly suggested that
Mr. Foss and Miss Foster be mar
red, as Miss Foster would only
have to drop the three last letters of her name
and add an IS" Ths parties concurred, jok-
inely, and Mr.. Hine performed the ceremony.
Next day the serious nature OF ths affair
dawned upon them. and tho village society, as
well as society here. is very much excited over
it Miss Foster is a daughter of n. G. Foster, a
millionaire lum herman, ana q most estimable
young lady. highly esteemed in the best circles.
She has. since tho occurrence. kept in her room
at homo and almost cried her eyes out. Friends
of the parties think there il no way out OF it but
a divorce. Mr. Foss was formerly married, but
was divorced from his wife in the Circuit Court
here last spring.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-10-15
A DEADLY MISTAKE.
A Grocer Mixes Poisoned EGGS with His Stock
to kill Rats, and Kills One of His Customers.

PHILADELPHIA. Oct. 14-Mrs. Margaret Reitz
was fou nd dead in her bed this morning at her
home. 2207 North Front street, and the police
were notified that her death was due to poison.
An investigation showed that On Tuesday, Mrs.
Reitz, August Hoffman, forty eight years of age;
Cora Hofma an. aged eight years. BENZ. Hoffman
six years old, and Harry Hoffman. aged four
years. were taken ill after eating some eggs
purcha sed from the store of James McCurdy,
2204 Front street. Several physicians were
called in, and announced that the patients were
suffering from arsenical poisoning. All of the
family, with the exception of Mrs Rsitz, i'm
proved gradually, but she greatly pros
trated. and continued to sink until this morn
ing, when she was found dead in bed by one or
the family. McCurdy, who was arrested. stated
that in order to rid himself of rats he had taken
several eggs. filled them with arsenic, and
placed them in the barrels with the others. Mrs
Reitz. being in the habit of rchasing cracked
eggs, given one Of them by the boy in mis-
take for good ones, witL the above result.
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CARDS, COwHIDEs AND PISTOLS.
Dire Results of Poker Party Broken Up
by an Indignant Wife.

COLUMBIA, s. c., Oct 1.-THE town Of
Walterboro Colleton county, is intensely
Agitated over q series Of cowhidings and threat
ened duels. All the parties concerned belong to
che first families of the place. The eldest son of
Major Edwards. the principal lawyer of the
town. married the beautiful daughter of the late
Colonel James II. Rion. Young Edwards's
frequent absences from home at night aroused
his wife's ire and last Saturday night, guided
Dy boy named Izlar. she entered the room
where her husband and several male friends
present was Mr.. Bellinger. Mrs. Edwards
sponsble for her husbands habits. and drawing
q cowhide from beneath her shawl she beat him
numerically before shs could be secured Her
sex saved her from retaliation the part OF
Bsllnger. who expressed his intention of holding
her husband responsible. and drew a pistol to
kill him. Then Mrs. Edwaris's nerve forsook
her, and sinking on her knees before Rellinger
she begged forgiveness for the cowhidfng and
entreated him to spare her husbands life. Bell
niger then Left the room, threatening to kill any
enc who should divulge the occurrence.
Next day, when the story got out, Beinger
sought Edwards and wore out a cowhde upon
his person. Bellinger also compelled Edwards
st the muzzle of the pistol. to to the house of
young IZlar TO cowhide him for showing Mrs
Edwards the poker-room, but the appearance of
the boys father prevented it being done. At
last accounts many citizens Of Walterboro had
taken opposite sides and were going about armed
the teeth.
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WHERE WAGES ARE HIGH.
Short Supply of Mechanics and High Wages
in Southern California.

Los ANGELES, Cal, Oct 4.-Los Angeles ia
threatened with dearth of mechanics. and con-
tractors have been compelled to advance wages
on existing contracts to a ruinous price. Some
have obtained extension of time. Common
journeymen carpenters demanding 81 so 10
S5 80 per day. common masons S., brick-layers
81, plasterers &c. painters "a to $5. and plumbers
anything. Common laborers get 50. so to So.
Work of all kinds is seriously hindered for want
of hands at any price. Five hundred mechan-
les in the various departments OF building could
be put to work this morning It would be safe
to guarantee their fare out and So a day for six
months to 800 common carpenters, and other
laborers in proportion. It estimated that
sc 600 600 worth of work is now under contract
the way TO contract, in big public enter
prices. Over 500 private residences are in course
of erection. IL is supposed that the detraction
Of southern California, now going the rounds Of
the press in the East. and the silence of the me-
chanics here who profting by the dearth.
cause the short supply. The boom here is genu-
inc, all reports to the contrary Notwithstanding.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-10-15
Jay MORNING., OCTOBER is, 1887.

the Ministry will decide whether not Gen.
Bouianger shall be deprived of his command.
Inc Radical members of tine Chamber OF Depu-
ties have decided to make him a candidate for
that body. If he resigns or is removed from
his command. Further complications
imminent. Runners persistenty cir
culated to the effect that Bouan ger has resign ed
bis commission IN tho army but the statements is
doubted here His resignation at this time
would be tatamount to confession OF guilt in
connection with the Capparei affair, and his
criminal arrest would of course, inm sdiately
follow. HIS suspension and technical arrest for
q period of thirty days was the result of his
outspoksn accusation against the Minister of
War of having attacked him through General
Capparel and the other decoration conspirAtors,
and his subsequent insolence to General Ferron,
when asked TO explain his language, and not for
complcity in the War Ofhce scandal. His
frank speech exceeded the limits of military dis
ciplins. and the Minister Of War was compelled
[ IL
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-10-15

ST. LOUIS. Oct. l4-The Globe Democra this
morning publishes account of the probable
organization of the lead smelling firms of the
West. with n view TO forming a pact to sus-
tain the American lead markets. The move
ment has been very quietly pushed to a success
fal issue, and the details are now being project
ed. 1t Is known as the National Lead Trust
Company" with headquarters IN ST. Louis
Among the chief promoters are: Thompson &
Co, owners of the ST. Louis Smelling aud Re-
fining Company: Gustav Billings, of the Socorro
IN. NJ reduction works. the owners OF the Har-
rison reduction works. of Lead vile; several
Utah smelters and plant owners The ST. Louis
white lead manufacturers are the principal lead
ore dealers of Zacatecas and the City OF Mexico,
Mexico. The present price of lead, l0c to
A45c is about as high as it can be to main tain its
standing in the market against tho i'm por ted
article. and the aim OF the syndicate will be to
Keep mp this price